I started this tradition last year, though someone else started it first a couple years ago and continues it. It’s a neat way to sum up a year of music: 100 great songs by 100 different artists. If you’re a regular listener you’ve probably already heard almost all of them but this is a chance to own their souls as it is in torrent form. So go grab it grab it.
A. R. Rahman - Mausam & Escape
Air France - Collapsing At Your Doorstep
Alejandro Escovedo - Nuns Song
Amadou & Mariam - Sabali
Atmosphere - You
Azeda Booth - Big Fists
Barry Adamson - The Beaten Side Of Town
Beach House - D.A.R.L.I.N.G.
The Black Keys - Things Ain’t Like They Used to Be
Black Mountain - Wucan
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - For Every Field There’s a Mole
Bruno Pronsato - Slowley Gravely
The Bug - Murder We (feat. Ricky Ranking)
Cadence Weapon - True Story
Calexico - Man Made Lake
The Chap - Fun and Interesting
Clark - Volcan Veins
The Constantines - Our Age
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
Cut Copy - So Haunted
David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
Death Cab For Cutie - Grapevine Fires
Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
Department Of Eagles - No One Does It Like You
Destroyer - Shooting Rockets (From the Desk of Night’s Ape)
DeVotchKa - The Clockwise Witness
DJ Rupture - Quest, Team Shadetek - Mirage, Brooklyn Anthem (acapella)
The Dodos - Winter
Drive-By Truckers - Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife
The Drones - Nail It Down
Elbow - The Fix
Ellen Allien - Elphine
Erykah Badu - Soldier
Frightened Rabbit - I Feel Better
Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love for Planet Earth
Fucked Up - Son the Father
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
The Gaslight Anthem - Great Expectations
Grails - Predestination Blues
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Grouper - Stuck
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
The Hold Steady - One for the Cutters
Jacaszek - Lament
James Blackshaw - Past Has Not Passed
Jamie Lidell - Another Day
Kleerup - Thank You for Nothing
Koushik - Be With
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
Louis Guilliaume - Fucked Up
Love Is All - New Beginnings
Luomo - Have You Ever (feat. Cassy)
Lykke Li - Breaking It Up
M83 - Kim & Jessie
Man Man - The Ballad Of Butter Beans
Marlena Shaw - California Soul (Diplo/Mad Decent Remix)
Max Tundra - Which Song
MGMT - Time to Pretend
Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron And Fred Squire - You Swan Go On
The Mountain Goats - Lovecraft In Brooklyn
The Neighbourhood Council - Liver and Tan
Neon Neon - Trick For Treat (Feat. Spank Rock & Sean Tillmann)
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Lie Down Here (And Be My Girl)
Nico Muhly - Mothertongue Pt. 1: Archive
No Age - Things I Did When I Was Dead
Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
Osborne - Downtown
Paavoharju - Kevatrumpu
Parov Stelar - Fleur De Lille - Original Mix
Pete And The Pirates - Come On Feet
Plants and Animals - Bye Bye Bye
Ponytail - Beg Waves
Portishead - We Carry On
Prosumer and Murat Tepeli - Serenity
Quiet Village - Free Rider
Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants (Chants)
Roots Manuva - Let the Spirit
The Ruby Suns - There Are Birds
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don’t Haunt This Place
Sam Phillips - Don’t Do Anything
Shearwater - Rooks
Shed - Estrangé
Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
Silver Jews - Aloyisius, Bluegrass Drummer
Snowman - We Are The Plague
Son Lux - Break
Sons & Daughters - Gilt Complex
Subtle - Unlikely Rock Shock
Sun Kil Moon - Lost Verses
Syclops - NR17
The Tallest Man On Earth - The Gardner
Thomas Brinkmann - Meadow
Thomas Function - Snake In The Grass
TV on the Radio - DLZ
Vampire Weekend - Walcott
The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit) - Wena
The Walkmen - I Lost You
The Week That Was - The Airport Line
Wolf Parade - Fine Young Cannibals
Zazen Boys - Asobi